2023, Vol.36, No.4

THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 2022 KCI Impact Factor : 1.9

pISSN : 1229-0718 / eISSN : 2671-6542
https://journal.kci.go.kr/baldal

This study examined the moderating effect of preschoolers’ effortful control temperament and mother mindful parenting on the process of preschoolers behavioral inhibition temperament affecting social-emotional competence. For this purpose, 274 mothers of children aged 36 to 84 months, 137 boys (50.0%) and 137 girls (50.0%), were surveyed. Preschoolers’ behavioral inhibition temperament, effortful control temperament, social-emotional competence, and mother mindful parenting were measured. The hypotheses were tested using the PROCESS macro for moderated moderation analysis. Results showed a significant three-way interaction between preschoolers’ behavioral inhibition temperament, effortful control temperament, and mother mindful parenting. Alternatively, these results suggest that effortful control temperament and mother mindful parenting can change the influence of the behavioral inhibition temperament on preschoolers’ social-emotional competence. Based on the results, useful information for appropriate intervention in parent counseling and education can be obtained by identifying preschoolers’ temperament characteristics and examining the level of mother mindful parenting accordingly.

This study investigated the effect of early parental attachment on interpersonal problems through the mediation of self-emotional recognition and emotional regulation in adulthood. Data were collected from 265 adults using questionnaires. We used bootstrapping techniques from Hayes' PROCESS macro program to estimate the hypothesized serial mediation. Insecure parental attachment was significantly associated with emotion recognition, both of which were in turn related to emotion regulation, and subsequently to interpersonal problems. Specifically, emotion recognition and regulation fully mediate the relationship between anxiety-ambivalent attachment and independent interpersonal problems. Otherwise, emotion recognition and regulation fully mediate the relationship between avoidant attachment and dependent interpersonal problems. These results suggest that different types of insecure parental attachment have different effects on interpersonal problems in adulthood.

This study validated the Korean New Media Literacy Scale (K-NMLS)—a Korean adaptation of the NMLS by Koc and Barut (2016)—and its abbreviated version, the Korean New Media Literacy Scale Short Form (K-NMLS-SF). Based on data from an online survey of 322 Korean adults in their 20s, confirmatory factor analysis suggested that a two-factor structure (consumption and prosumption) adequately represented the data. We confirmed criterion validity through an analysis of the associations between K-NMLS and digital competence-related constructs. To enhance the utility of K-NMLS while preserving its core purpose, a 9-item version, K-NMLS-SF, was validated using the same procedure as for the K-NMLS. The implications of validating K-NMLS and K-NMLS-SF were discussed.